As members of the Fusion Middleware Architecture Group (a.k.a the A-Team), we get exposed to a wide range of challenging technical issues around security and Oracle Fusion Middleware. We're using this blog to answer common questions and provide interesting solutions to the real-world scenarios that our customers encounter every day.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Introduction

Since the introduction of MDC support in OAM 11g, Customers have been asking for Automated Synchronization between Master and Clone OAM Environments. It is supported in OAM R2PS2. Thanks to the development team! Before R2PS2, It required T2P process to keep all the data centers in synch which is manual process or customer had to write crone jobs to run T2P process at frequent intervals. Please note that T2P process is still supported with R2PS2 if that is the preference for some reason.

Monday, November 10, 2014

Introduction

Security systems, including OAM, reside in a dynamic environment where the parameters that affect system performance are ever changing. On top of that, access management Infrastructure like OAM serve as the front door or gate to every application/system in an organization. Therefore continuous monitoring of such key components is mandatory to ensure continuous success of not just your access and SSO solution but indeed your very applications themselves. Effective monitoring involves two types of controls; preventive monitoring and detective monitoring. Preventive monitoring makes sure failure does not take place and detective monitoring helps you detect any failure if it occurred and take corrective measures. OAM has features to facilitate both the types of monitoring. We will go over all the monitoring capabilities offered by the product.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Some of our OIM customers have a use-case of implementing a custom
landing page. Such a landing page could be used for multiple purposes,
for example – to display some static information like guidelines for
using the system or dynamic information like system news, new features,
releases etc.
OIM 11gR2 PS2 provides a convenient way of implementing this use-case and it is the subject of this post.